Felix Hernandez Quotes
The whole world can hit a fastball if it's in the right place. I just try to change it up.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I love anything to do with history.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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Anybody who knows me knows that I don't just love this sport, I am in love with it. I am really in love with this sport. I am obsessed with boxing. I eat, breathe and sleep it. You know, I do it all; this is my life. This is not a hobby for me. This is a lifestyle for me, and I address it accordingly. I take it very, very seriously.
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When I moved to New York, I wanted to be in the ensemble of 'Hairspray.' That was my goal.
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Being a writer can be a very lonely profession, but having a network of people who can sympathize with everything you're going through - from contract issues to the terror of changing your novel from past- to present-tense - is an invaluable asset.
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Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.
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The whole world can hit a fastball if it's in the right place. I just try to change it up.
